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Here is what I am hoping is a rhetorical question: Should federal agencies have slush funds? By “slush fund,” I mean…

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development building is seen in Washington, D.C. Alastair Pike/AFP via Getty Images hide…

Finding a comprehensive, cost-competitive and sustainable waste management solution can be a significant challenge. For food and beverage manufacturers, distributors…

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. The United States is nowhere near its goal…

In a paper just published in Nature Communications, researchers at the Industrial Sustainable Chemistry group of the University of Amsterdam…

By editing the polymers of discarded plastics, chemists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have found a…

While we’re asleep at night, our brain is busy doing maintenance. The glymphatic system–the brain’s waste disposal mechanism–flushes away excess…

Putting extra holiday cookies and leftovers in the freezer will not only extend their shelf life — it could also…

Millions of tons of coal ash leftover from burning the planet’s dirtiest fossil fuel are sitting in ponds and landfills,…

As engineers and researchers continue to create new sustainable shipping vessels and alternative fuel sources, some groups are instead looking…